Miguel Pena Machete

Practice Areas

Competition & Regulatory, Public Law, Litigation & Arbitration in Public Law matters.

Professional activity focused on competition and regulation matters, being involved in important antitrust cases, both on a preventive or defensive approach, as well as Mergers & Acquisitions operations in what concerns regulatory issues and merger notifications to the Competition Authority and European Commission. Significant know-how in sectorial regulatory practice including licensing, compliance and enforcement actions. Deep knowledge in telecommunications, sports rights, health, transport, energy, food and beverage sectors regulatory.

In Public Law has been acting on public procurement and public contracts execution and administrative procedure matters, representing both public and private entities, ongoing advisory on the activity and management of public enterprises, litigation and arbitration.

Career

Joined the firm in 2001, Partner at SLCM since 2005. Head of Competition & Regulatory and Public Law areas of practice. Head of German Desk.

Professional Memberships

Member of Portuguese Bar Association since 1994. Portuguese Competition Lawyers' Circle, ANWALT.DE, DIRO and DACH member.

Personal

Law degree from Lisbon Catholic University (1992) and Master in Civil Law (2005). Former Assistant Teacher at Faculty of Law of Lisbon Catholic University (1992-1999) and Lisbon Nova University (1999-2002), in the legal and economic area.

Portuguese, German, English, French, Spanish languages.